Definition of Cantonist. Meaning of Cantonist. Synonyms of Cantonist

- Cantonists (Russian: кантонисты; more properly: военные кантонисты, "military cantonists") were underage sons of conscripts in the Russian Empire. From...
- twelve, they would be placed for their six-year military education in cantonist schools. They were then required to serve in the Imperial Russian Army...
- many of them were forcibly conscripted into Cantonist schools from the age of 12, while being a Cantonist did not count into the time of military service...
- (sometimes as young as eight) to fill a quota of Jews required to enter the cantonist schools, in preparation for service in the Russian Army, in the situations...
- converted into cantonists (Kantonisten). The term "recruitment" thereafter applied to the hiring of foreign mercenaries only; cantonists were said to be...
- Nicholas I of Russia in 1827 conscripted Jews under 18 years of age into the cantonist schools for a 25-year military service in order to promote baptism. Policy...
- garrison a territory Kanton (disambiguation) Cantone (disambiguation) Cantonist, sons of Russian conscripts who were educated in special canton schools...
- forced ****imilation of Jews, from 1827 conscripted Jewish children as Cantonists in military institutions in the east aiming to compel them to convert...
- ballet dancer Alexander Friedmann (who was a son of a baptized Jewish cantonist) and the pianist Ludmila Ignatievna Voyachek (who was a daughter of the...
- between 1827 and 1857 over 30,000 children were placed in the so-called Cantonist schools, where they were pressured to convert. "Many children were smuggled...